Another Execution - But Why No Protests?

This morning I read that another person was executed.

PARCHMAN, Miss. -- Hired killer John B. Nixon Sr., was put to death Wednesday night by lethal injection.

At age 77 he became the oldest person in the nation to be executed since the death penalty was reinstated in the United States nearly three decades ago.

Then I asked myself "Why haven't I heard non-stop in the news about this pending execution like with the last murderer to be executed? Why weren't Jesse Jackson, Snoop Dog, Mike Farrell, and Bianca Jaggar there protesting?" I have to assume there were differences in the cases. Let's see one difference is Nixon killed one guy where as Tookie murdered 4 people. So, do the nuts only protest if you're being punished for killing several people? Oh yeah, one murderer was white and the other was black. Could that be the difference? If so, would that be enough evidence to conclude that the people who only protested one of the two execution are racist? I won't call them all racists but some of them have thrown that claim out with less evidence.